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Stockholm Wood City: The World’s Largest Wooden City

Santa Cruz Architect

Swedish urban developer Atrium Ljungberg has initiated Stockholm Wood City, anticipated to be the world’s largest urban wooden construction project. Stockholm Wood City At 62 acres (250,000 square meters) the project is thus the world’s largest known urban construction project in wood.

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What role do simulations play in the green design process, and in architectural careers?

Archinect

Last week, we reported on Barcelona’s mission to build a digital twin of the entire city on a supercomputer housed in a 19th century chapel. The digital twin project in Barcelona joins similar digital urban environments being built to replicate U.S

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Sultan Haitham City by SOM Oman’s first ever Smart City

aasarchitecture

Sultan Haitham City is a new mixed-use smart city in Muscat, Oman, that provides a sustainable future for its residents, future generations and visitors through vibrant public space, high-quality and affordable housing, and smart urban mobility. million square meters.

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The Future of Architecture: BioDiverCities and Nature-based Solutions (NbS)

Architizer

Sign up for key information about the 12th Annual A+Awards, set to launch this fall. Imagine a city where vibrant green spaces and natural solutions not only enhance our urban landscapes but also boost our well-being, creating healthier and happier urban environments. Bangkok, Thailand. Design by Redland-scape.

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Sweden’s Timber Dream: The World’s Largest Wooden City Awaits

The Architecture Designs

Can you imagine a city where every building, every street, and every home is crafted from wood? The land of meatballs and IKEA is about to add another feather to its cap with the construction of the world’s largest wooden city. The wooden structures promise to create an environment that reflects the tranquility of a forest.

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BIG and Samoo unveil design for "flood-proof" floating city Oceanix Busan

Deezen

Architecture firms BIG and Samoo and tech company Oceanix have revealed their design for a first-of-its-kind climate-resilient floating city , destined for the seas off Busan in South Korea. Oceanix Busan will be a first-of-its-kind floating development in South Korea.

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Sustainability and liveability claims of Saudi 170-kilometre city are "naive" say experts

Deezen

"There would be so many physical and environmental phenomena that would have to be dealt with to achieve the incredible minimal and singular character that the renderings propose," said Marshall Brown, director of the Princeton Urban Imagination Center and an associate professor of architecture at Princeton University.